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Awesome news from the Ubuntu team. I like this move and I hope this only adds to the growing community backing KVM and working on maturing the management of the technology in the developer community.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue76#head-ae07153a350b0c9e5da6b4c84d8fca9fa1d7ab7a
We’ve chosen to settle on KVM as our main virtualization focus. KVM is a special version of QEMU which utilizes […]
A couple of these are dated (NVU…), but Jimmy Atkinson put together a great rosetta stone for those looking for open source alternatives to their proprietary desktop apps.
http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/
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Microsoft and innovation?
Microsoft has said that the Internet service provider Fasthosts, which has started offering a hosted version of Microsoft Office 2007, is infringing on the software giant’s license regulations.
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This is a really cool site that I saw just started up covering business deals in a Wiki for a great historical buildout of information. Michael Robertson started it up and explains his rationale here.
You can find it all at Dealipedia.com
After continually getting frustrated that I couldn’t find historic data on business deals or easily […]
I really, really don’t get what Apple is trying to prove here… companies trying to build business apps onto the iPhone and getting slapped with the DMCA because the Apple browser lacks Java and Flash support (e.g. it sucks)? Seriously Apple?
And it’s not just Web 2.0 start-ups making the noise. SAP, the world’s largest supplier […]
Take off a day of work to participate in Super Bowl Parade festivities… I must be in the wrong line of work.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23001892/
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Saw this article over at Ars today:
We spoke to Bob Sutor, vice president of standards and open source for IBM, who responded to Microsoft’s recent claims regarding IBM’s involvement in the OOXML dispute. “IBM believes that there is a revolution occurring in the IT industry, and that smart people around the world are demanding truly […]
It’s always interesting to see predictions like this one on processor innovations, volumes and success/failures actually coming true.
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Wow, you know a company is desparate to acquire into a space when they’re paying 60% plus premiums… there goes a MySQL and Linux user…
Microsoft said Friday it has offered to acquire Yahoo in a proposed cash and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion.
Microsoft said it had offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, […]
Saw a few articles today on IBM’s OCCS announcement with Ubuntu.
ComputerWorld
Satyadas said IBM thinks that this year, it will happen. “All the stars are lining up,” he said. “Everybody has been saying that since 2001 except IBM. We never said that, but we are saying that now.”
Matt Asay’s Cnet Blog
It’s easy to overlook IBM’s announcement […]
